The Singaporean government faced with public the general public anger over immigration and difficult as well as pricy living costs, announced this week that it would tighten the growth of the foreign workforce in their country. The Singaporean government has announced new draconian measures pressuring businesses to eliminate their reliance on foreign labor and promised to boost Singaporean citizens' wages. Why is this important? You may ask; it is important because at the same time Singapore is doing everything to protect itself against foreign dependence, a Singaporean company Olam, is taking what is our most precious treasure, our land. In the meantime, the Gabonese people are looking at Brazilian behinds.

By now, you must already know that in Singapore, it is almost impossible for foreigners to own any land. This has historically been the case in that country. You see dear readers, Singaporeans know very well the value of the land for a people, this is why they protect theirs and want to take ours, because we are stupid. But now, the Singaporeans are expanding their protectionism to include making it difficult if not impossible for foreigners to immigrate to their country. The new government measures aim to cut dependence on foreign workers, whom many citizens blame for overcrowding, soaring home prices and depressed low-end pay. The finance minister of Singapore recently said that his country needed to do more to achieve economic growth that was driven by sustained productivity improvement rather than manpower growth. He added that businesses had to respond in new ways to the tight labor market.

Singapore is an island nation of just 714 square kilometers, Singapore has used liberal immigration policies to bring in much of the talent and workforce needed to help fuel its rapid economic growth in the past years. This brought its immigrant population to about 1.23 million as of June 2012; a third of the total workforce which is of 5.3 million people. The news measures announced this week will require companies to pay higher taxes when they hire foreign employees. Authorities have also decided to lower the ratio of foreign employees to citizens for companies, and make work-visa requirements much harder for foreign workers, professionals and managers. The Singaporean minister of finance said that these measures would especially affect services, construction and marine businesses, sectors that have shown weak productivity growth and high dependence on foreign workers.

These decisions were taken by the singaporean government, despite complaints by businesses that previous government curbs in immigration have caused labor shortage. Analysts and employers, particularly in the hospitality and restaurant sectors, have warned that reducing foreign-labor inflows could hurt Singapore's cost competitiveness and drive some companies out of business. To help businesses restructure, the government will spend about US $4.8 billion over the next three years on programs including wage supplements for Singaporean workers, as well as temporary rebates on personal income and corporate taxes.

The Singaporean population, as you can see on the picture above, has demonstrated recently its displeasure with the number of immigrants in their country, asking for their government to curb the numbers of immigrants. The Singaporean people during these demonstrations clearly stated that if they took in too many immigrants and foreign workers, they would weaken their national identity and sense of belonging, and they would feel crowded out of their own country.

What Singapore is doing is of interest to the Gabonese people because in Gabon, the citizens are being transformed into second class citizens in their land they don't react against that. Singaporeans think first and foremost about themselves, their country above else. In Gabon, there is no nationalism; the Gabonese citizen is pushed around in its own country. Even to work at the presidential palace, in the petroleum sector or in any important sector of the economy, are mostly reserved for foreigners. But the good thing is that there are Brazilian butts to occupy us!

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